Thursday, February 15, 2007

Jim Driscoll of Vets4Vets emailed me re: a complimentary reintegration workshop for OEF/OIF veterans taking place in Tucson, AZ from April 27-29, 2007. All expenses are paid (travel, lodging, and meals) for qualifying vets. From their application form:

Vets4Vets is a non-partisan veterans’ peer support organization dedicated to helping Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans feel good about themselves and heal from any negative aspects of service and war. Vets4Vets is a national community of Iraq-era veterans who have served post 9/11.

In weekend workshops, one-on-one’s and local groups, Vets4Vets allows veterans to take equal and uninterrupted turns sharing their experiences and expressing their feelings in a truly confidential setting. Over 250 Iraq-ear veterans have attended one of our eight workshops in the last year. Most of them have returned to their home communities after these workshops and reached out to their peers to begin setting up Vet4Vets projects in local communities around the country.

This workshop is a chance for those who served in theater to tell their stories to other veterans with similar serviced. This workshop will also focus on veterans who are interested in setting up and leading local Vets4Vets support groups.

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"The first shamans earned their keep in primitave societies by providing explanations and rituals that enabled man to deal with his environment and his personal anguish. Early man, no less than we, dealt with forces that he could not understand or control, and he attempted to come to grips with his vulnerablity by trying to bring order to his universe." -- Richard Gabriel in No More Heroes

"War stories end when the battle is over or when the soldier comes home. In real life, there are no moments amid smoldering hilltops for tranquil introspection. When the war is over, you pick up your gear, walk down the hill and back into the world." -- OIF vet John Crawford in The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

"After wars' end, soldiers once again become civilians and return to their families to try to pick up where they left off. It is this process of readjustment that has more often than not been ignored by society. -- Major Robert H. Stretch, Ph.D in Textbook of Military Medicine: Vol. 6 Combat Stress

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